Chelsea Wolfe is a musician who metal fans go to when they need something mellow but capable of raising goosebumps. Her reputation extends well beyond the alternative rock world. She…
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With a name like Armed for Apocalypse, you know this Californian quartet will be intense. Now on album number four, they signed with Church Road Records for their first LP…
Crossover-thrash is the most charming of all extreme metal sub-genres. By charming, we mean the fun of uniting with the underdog. Nobody takes it too serious on a cerebral level.…
Belgium gave us the unique post-metal music of Amenra, but it also gave us the grindcore offshoot known as mincecore. You can thank Agathocles for that and the many split…
A promo photo of Cartilage shows five people who take Halloween seriously. One assumes they have their eyes on the prize for best costume. Smeared in fake blood, wearing arm…
It’s easier to pretend at being a thrash metal band these days. The Big Four achieved all the major milestones by 1991. Over in Germany, the Teutonic groups laid the…
We often lament how black metal and shoegaze sound good on paper but seldom produce the results. But what about brutal death metal and hardcore? Yes, they share a love…
California trio, New Skeletal Faces, want to make the “rock” in death rock heavier. They came onto the scene with their 2019 debut, Celestial Disease, and created enough hype for…
Oakland, California is not the first place that comes to mind when you think of crusty doom metal. But neither would you predict that a sunny place like Florida would…